Umee will be acting as a cross-chain DeFi hub, connecting various ecosystems together and developing novel financial products on top. Umee will incorporate tools such as layer 2 scaling solutions, side chain architectures, tools from the roll-ups ecosystem as well as alternative base layer protocols for connecting between blockchain networks. Within our DeFi Hub, we have been experimenting with interest rate instruments and other new financial primitives that will act as foundational infrastructure for the evolving crypto world.